Nurses are Needed 


THE U. S. CADET NURSE CORPS 
U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 

offers girls an extraordinary opportunity 
for a Free Professional Nursing education 


Be a Cadet Nurse— the Girl with a Future” 


In conformity with the National War Agencies Appropriation Act, 1945, which 
provides, “No part of this or any other appropriation shall be expended by the 
Office of War Information for the preparation, or publication of any pamphlet 
or other literature for distribution to the public within the United States,” this 
publication is not for general distribution but is restricted to the use of media 
presenting information to the public. 


Prepared by the 

Us, OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION 

H . . . , 

in cooperation with 


DIVISION OF NURSE EDUCATION, U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY 


September 1944 










Foreword 




The shortage of nurses has created a drastic civilian emer¬ 
gency. The Armed Forces have called more than 50,000 
graduate nurses to their ranks, leaving fewer nurses to care 
for rapidly increasing numbers of patients in hospitals and 
health agencies at home. 

Only by preparing thousands of new student nurses can the 
problem be solved. 

Last year 65,000 young women answered their country’s 
call to study for the profession of nursing. But, the problem 
is not yet solved. The recruitment of student nurses is a con¬ 
tinuing program. If we are to train enough nurses to maintain 
essential civilian nursing services and to meet future needs of 
the armed forces, an additional 60,000 new student nurses must 
be enrolled in schools of nursing during the year. 

The public has had direct experience in the growing shortage 
of nurses. It has had to face curtailment of vital nursing 
services, even the closing of entire hospital wards. It has had 
to get along with fewer nurses at a time it needs many more . 
It has witnessed the curtailment of vital nursing service be¬ 
cause there were not enough nurses to go around. 

Already conscious of the problem, the public is highly re¬ 
ceptive to information and suggestions about its solution. If 
the public is fully informed of the results to be obtained from 
recruiting new student nurses, of the program to train these 
students, and of the opportunities nursing offers to young 
women who enter its ranks, response to appeals for cooperation 
and assistance should be overwhelming. 


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The U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps 


In July of 1943, the Congress unanimously 
passed the Bolton Act, establishing the U. S. 
Cadet Nurse Corps in the office of the Surgeon 
General of the U. S. Public Health Service. This 
action was taken at the urgent request of leaders 
in professional nursing and hospital groups. 
The Act provided funds to pay for the complete 
education of the minimum number of student 
nurses needed to maintain essential nursing serv¬ 
ice. Additional funds have been provided as 
the demand for additional student nurses has 
increased. 

The creation of the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps 
was of immeasurable help in recruiting young 
women as nurses. Before the Corps existed, 
many thousands of women attracted to nursing 
were unable to go into training for financial 
reasons. Others who could afford the education 
felt they were of more immediate help to their 
country in one of the uniformed women’s services, 
or in a war industry. 

Under the Cadet Nurse Corps program, the 
Government now pays for the education of young 
women who qualify for admission to participating 
schools of nursing. Some 96,000 Cadet Nurses— 
new student nurses admitted to schools last year, 
plus those already enrolled in schools of nursing 
who transferred to the Corps—are now studying 
under all-expense scholarships provided by the 
Corps program. 

These scholarships include room, board, books, 
tuition, fees, plus a monthly personal allowance 
of from $15 to at least $30. Also provided are 
uniforms which identify Cadet Nurses as young 
women in the service of their country. 

High school graduates and collegd" girls in good 
health and with good scholastic records may 
enlist in the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps if they meet 
individual requirements of the school of nursing 
they desire to enter. The age range is 17 or 18 
to 35, depending upon school or State regulations. 

This is not a Government nursing school pro¬ 
gram. —It operates only through already estab¬ 
lished schools of nursing. These schools, approved 
under provisions of the Bolton Act, receive allot¬ 
ments from the U. S. Public Health Service to 


help meet the cost of equipping and instructing 
Cadet Nurses. Cadet Nurses are free to choose 
their own school. 

Through accelerated courses, Cadet Nurses 
complete their education in from 24 to 30 months 
except in schools of nursing which require an addi¬ 
tional six months training. They then become 
Senior Cadets, performing the work of graduate 
nurses under supervision, and receiving larger 
spending allowances. Thus Cadet Nurses receive 
paid nursing assignments earlier than under 
former nurse training programs. 

By performing nursing services in hospitals 
where they study, Cadet Nurses begin to serve 
their country immediately. Upon entering a 
school of nursing, they help to release graduate 
nurses for duty with the armed forces and in 
critical civilian areas. 

In return for the benefits received, Cadet Nurses 
pledge to remain in essential nursing, either civilian 
or military , for the duration of the war. They may 
choose their field of nursing. 

The U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps offers very real 
inducements to young women who want to serve 
their country now and to prepare for their future. 
Because of these inducements, the nursing pro¬ 
fession holds an enviable position in the growing 
competition for the Nation’s womanpower. To 
solidify this position and to assure the continuing 
stream of student nurse recruits needed to meet 
the demands, intensified emphasis should be 
placed on advantages of the Cadet Nurse Corps 
program and on the rewards to be gained from 
one of the most challenging professions open to 
women. 

Efforts to recruit new student nurses for the 
U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps over the past year have 
been carried out successfully through radio, 
movies, magazines, graphics, news, organization 
activities, and through colleges and high schools. 
This program is being continued. 

The recruitment of Cadet Nurses is not just a 
seasonal job. It is a year-round activity. Special 
recruiting efforts are made, however, to coincide 
with the peak periods of the opening of classes in 
schools of nursing—fall, spring and summer. 


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Summary of Advantages Offered by the 
U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps 


1. Preparation for the future. —Of all war 

work open to women, nursing is one of the few pro¬ 
fessions with a promising future. The well-pre¬ 
pared professional nurse has an almost endless 
choice of fields in which she may work. She may 
enter public health nursing with a voluntary or 
official agency, school or industry. She may be a 
director of a nursing school, supervisor of a hospital, 
a specialist in pediatrics, public health or in psychia¬ 
tric nursing, a laboratory technician, an anesthe¬ 
tist, or an airline stewardess. She may be a 
nurse in a hospital or doctor’s office, or a private 
duty nurse. She may enter the Army Nurse 
Corps as a second lieutenant or the Navy Nurse 
Corps as an ensign. These are only a few of the 
positions that represent security. She may earn 
up to $7,500 a year, after sufficient preparation and 
experience to perform administrative and organiza¬ 
tional duties. 

A nurse may follow her profession in all parts of 
this country and abroad. After the war she may 
take part in the enormous task of reconstruction 
and rehabilitation in foreign countries, for there 
will be great demand for nurses both at home and 
abroad to help solve the vast problems of disease, 
malnutrition and war shock. The growing popu¬ 
larity of group-health plans, with their greater 
demand on hospitals, probably will mean a con¬ 
tinually increasing demand for graduate nurses in 
this country. 

For the woman who does not remain in nursing 
after the war—no work could better prepare her for 
marriage and motherhood , or for community 
leadership. Regardless of how a woman may 
choose to use her nurse education in future years, 
she will have acquired an understanding of people, 
a strength of character, and a mental alertness 
which will enrich her life immeasurably. 

2. War work now. —By performing nursing 
services in hospitals where they are studying, 
Cadet Nurses are helping to relieve the critical 
nursing shortage in civilian hospitals. Without 
student nurses, hospitals would have to depend 


upon graduate nurses. With student nurses, 
civilian hospitals are able to operate with a rela¬ 
tively small graduate staff for supervision and 
for the duties which demand a higher degree of 
training and experience. 

Cadet Nurses serve as they learn, assisting 
doctors and graduate nurses in operating rooms, 
caring for mothers and new babies in maternity 
wards, working in the diet kitchen, assisting in 
out-patient departments, giving morning and 
evening care to patients . . . working in every 
department of the hospital where their services 
are needed. 

As her training progresses, a Cadet Nurse takes 
on more and more responsibility with patients 
until, as a Senior Cadet, she performs the work of 
a graduate nurse. 

3. Education without cost. —From the day 

she enters a school of nursing and enrolls in the 
Cadet Nurse Corps until her graduation, a Cadet 
Nurse’s tuition is paid in full. Living expenses, 
including room, board, laundry, textbooks, health 
and laboratory fees, are also provided. The 
smart, official outdoor uniform of the Cadet 
Nurse Corps, as well as the indoor uniform of her 
school of nursing, is provided without cost to the 
student. 

Monthly allowances. —New students enter the 
Cadet Nurse Corps as pre-cadets and receive a 
monthly allowance of $15. From this, they pass 
to Junior Cadets at $20 a month, and then, where 
supervised practice as Senior Cadets is included 
in the program, not less than $30 a month. Some 
institutions and agencies which have availed them¬ 
selves of the services of Senior Cadets pay $60 to 
$75 a month, with maintenance. 

4. An accelerated period of training. —Un¬ 
der the provisions of the act establishing the Corps, 
Cadet Nurses receive complete preparation through 
accelerated study programs ranging from 24 to 30 
months. The Pre-cadet period is the first 9 
months, the Junior Cadet period the next 15 to 
21 months, depending on the school’s curriculum. 


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Some states and schools permit graduation after 
24 to 30 months’ training. Others require 36 
months for graduation. In these cases, at the 
end of the Junior Cadet period, the Cadet Nurse 
becomes a Senior Cadet. As such she is given 
important nursing assignments under supervision 
until graduation. 

Even though the program is accelerated, the 
student is given the same complete education that 
she would have received before the study program 
was condensed. Upon graduation a Cadet Nurse 
is eligible to become a Registered Nurse. To do 
this she must pass her State Board Examination, 
as must all graduate nurses, to obtain an “R.N.” 

To the college-trained woman with a broad, 
general educational background, the nursing pro¬ 
fession today offers its top administrative and 
executive positions. Graduate nurse experience 
and a relatively brief period of advanced nursing 
training will enable the college graduate to assume 
responsible nursing assignments in one of the 
many fields which require specialized preparation, 
such as executive positions in hospitals, in public 
health agencies, in schools of nursing, and in 
psychiatric nursing. 

Those who have had one or two years of college 
should consider entering a school of nursing 
affiliated with both a hospital and a college. 
Collegiate schools offer, in most instances, two 
types of programs: ( a) a professional course 
leading to a nursing diploma and ( b ) an integrated 
academic and professional program leading to a 
nursing diploma and the baccalaureate degree. 
Thirty months of her nurse study will be covered 
by the full Federal scholarship of the U. S. 
Cadet Nurse Corps. 

5. Completion of training. —This educa¬ 
tional program will not come to an abrupt halt when 
the war ends. Any member of the Corps enrolled 
90 days prior to the end of the war will be able 


to complete her studies under the scholarship 
provided by the Government. 

6. Admission to a uniformed service at 
age 17 or 18. —Many schools of nursing admit 
student nurses at the age of 17, others at 18. This is 
younger than women are admitted to any of the 
uniformed services of the Armed Forces, and 
permits a qualified young woman to go immedi¬ 
ately from high school into the U. S. Cadet 
Nurse Corps. 

Entrance requirements for admission to the 
Corps vary with schools of nursing, but in general 
include graduation from a high school with good 
scholastic record, and good health. In addition, 
the applicant must meet the entrance require¬ 
ments of her chosen school. An increasing 
number of schools of nursing are accepting mar¬ 
ried students. 

7. The official uniform. —Members of the 
Corps are privileged to wear a distinctive outdoor 
uniform that identifies them officially as members of 
an important war-time service. Provided without 
cost and designed by leading fashion experts, the 
uniform includes a flattering Montgomery beret, 
topcoat, water-repellent raincoat, two summer 
suits of gray and white pin-striped chambray, one 
winter suit of gray flannel, and designated acces¬ 
sories. Suits and topcoats are trimmed with 
regimental red epaulets, silver buttons and in¬ 
signia. The U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps insignia is 
that of the U. S. Public Health Service and the 
Maltese Cross, both rich in tradition and signifi¬ 
cance for the wearer. 

Students are not required to wear the uniform 
at all times, but wear it when and where they 
choose and on special occasions designated by the 
school. 

The indoor uniform is that of the school of 
nursing. The insignia of the U. S. Cadet Nurse 
Corps may be worn, if the school so desires. 



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Special Points About the U. S. Cadet 

Nurse Corps 


1. Nature of the Work. —To be a nurse calls 
for some personal sacrifice and an unselfish dedica¬ 
tion to humanitarian work. It is a sacrifice of 
which only the finest type of woman is capable. 
Nursing is more than a job. It is a profession, 
and a demanding one; but the rewards are greater 
than in almost any other field open to women. To 
increase the number of nurses it is necessary to 
find more of these women and to present to them 
the whole picture of present and future oppor¬ 
tunities in nursing. 

2. Competition. —The demand for woman- 
power, unparalleled in the history of this country, 
has created unprecedented competition for the 
services of women. With increased activity to 
recruit women for war industries and the Armed 
Forces, many student nurses will have to be 
drawn from the 17- and 18-year-old groups. 
There are only about 400,000 high school gradu¬ 
ates a year. If we were to depend upon these 
new graduates alone for student nurses, we would 
have to enroll one out of ever y four, an average 
probably too high to maintain. The competition 
is keen, and the drive should be an intensive one. 

3 . Training period .—Although student nurses 
in the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps are identified with 
the war effort by their service in civilian hospitals 
and by their uniforms, they are attracted to the 
profession chiefly by a sincerity of purpose that 
goes beyond the desire to “get into the war 
effort”. For nurses must train 24 to 30 months, 
even under accelerated programs. 

Compared with the training periods both for 
women in industry and the armed forces, the 
period required to prepare a nurse fully for pro¬ 
fessional service is a long one. Thus it should be 
made clear that the prospective student nurse’s 
training period will be one of combined study and 
practice, and that as a student nurse she will per¬ 
form daily service to her hospital, a service with¬ 
out which the graduate nurse shortage would be 
more acute. 


4. Parental questions. —Occasionally parents 
stand in the way of their daughters becoming 
student nurses because of misunderstandings 
about preparation for professional nursing as a 
career. These parents do not realize that nursing 
is one of the most respected, financially secure 
and interesting of women’s professions, and they 
do not appreciate that it opens up unusual con¬ 
tacts with leaders in the medical, scientific, 
educational and civic fields. Nor are they 
aware of the wide field of opportunities nursing 
offers for a variety of specialties —public health 
nursing, service in civilian and Government hos¬ 
pitals, duty with the Armed Forces, work in nurs¬ 
ing educationfields, organizational and adminis¬ 
trative work. 

Parents often fear that with the accelerated 
nursing program, the student nurse will have to 
endure a strenuous 24 to 30 month schedule of 
“all work and no play”. This is a misconcep¬ 
tion. An average of 44 to 48 hours a week of 
classroom instruction, practice and study during 
the Pre- and Junior Cadet periods, with one full 
day off a week, leaves ample time for outdoor and 
evening recreation. In the Senior Cadet period, 
there is additional time for relaxation. 

The health of each student is carefully watched. 
A complete physical examination upon her en¬ 
trance into the Corps and at periodic intervals 
thereafter, guarantees her the best of medical at¬ 
tention. Should she require clinical treatment or 
hospitalization at any time, she will receive both 
without charge. 

Another parental objection is that the work 
will prove disagreeable, disillusioning, too confin¬ 
ing, and that, in effect, it will take their daughters 
“out of circulation”. Actually, the marriage rate 
is unusually high among nurses, and they make 
notably good wives, mothers and community 
leaders. For no young woman can better prepare 
herself for home-making and motherhood than by 
an education in professional nursing. She will be 
able to take in her stride upsetting emergencies 




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such as accidents and a sudden illness of her hus¬ 
band or children. The development of her poise, 
understanding and patience during her nursing 
experience will greatly aid her in maintaining a 
happy married life. 

Furthermore, if their daughter is a college grad¬ 
uate or has had some college training, she will find 
in nursing a profession which will use her full 
capabilities in essential administrative and execu¬ 
tive nursing positions. Not only will she be able 


to prepare herself quickly after registration for 
one of these vital and responsible jobs, but she 
also may expect to advance rapidly in the special¬ 
ized field of her choice due to her previously sound 
academic experience. 

Such misunderstandings by parents may be 
overcome by emphasizing the many opportunities 
for nurses of ability and proper education, both in 
attaining high standing professionally, and in de¬ 
veloping the finest character attributes. 


THE JOB OF OBTAINING NEW STUDENT NURSES 
CAN BE SUCCESSFUL ONLY BY DEMONSTRATING 
TO FINE YOUNG AMERICAN WOMEN THAT NURSING 
IS BOTH A GREAT SERVICE AND AN EXCEPTIONAL 
OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN A PERSONAL ADVANTAGE 


Here Is H^hat You Can Do To Help Recruit Student Nurses for the 

U. S . Cadet Nurse Corps 


This booklet gives you only the facts about why 
we need more nurses, what provisions have been 
made to facilitate their enrollment and education, 
and some of the problems inherent in the Cadet 
Nurse Corps program. 

The job of dramatizing the appeals and inspiring 
young women to enter the nursing profession is 
up to you. It calls for imagination and inspira¬ 
tion. 

Young women of today are thinking in terms of 
tomorrow. The greater number of them will 
respond to appeals which hold out promise for the 
future, as well as an opportunity to engage actively 
in the war effort today. 

Other appeals which have proved effective in 


previous campaigns will continue to be used to 
supplement the basic appeal of preparation for 
the future. These include the themes of “War 
Work Now,” “Completion of Training Assured,” 
“Complete Education Without Cost,” “Admission 
to a Woman’s Uniformed Service at Age 17 or 18,” 
“Nursing—A Design for a Successful Home¬ 
making or Professional Career,” “An Education 
for Leadership,” and “A Personal Security for 
the Future.” 

A new theme, based on local recruitment needs, 
will present figures on the limited number of 
opportunities to join the Cadet Nurse Corps, 
emphasizing the fact that the Corps is open 
exclusively to well qualified young women. 


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Statements of Government Officials on Present 
and Post-JVar Need for Nurses 


July 20, 1944. 

Sound health is as necessary for the tasks of 
peace as the tasks of war. To maintain a national 
health program fitted to the needs and social and 
economic problems of this country, we must 
expand our health and medical facilities. Trained 
persons working as a team to serve the people in 
public health centers in every community is one of 
the most effective means. Such an organization 
will call for especially prepared graduate nurses. 
The U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps, created at the 
urgent request of leaders in professional nursing 
and hospital fields, is more than an emergency 
measure. The Corps is achieving a two-fold pur¬ 
pose. It is alleviating the shortage of nurses to¬ 
day, and preparing the graduate nurses of tomor¬ 
row for their important place in the post-war 
world. 

Dr. Thomas Parran, 
Surgeon General , U. S. Public Health Service. 


July 20, 1944. 

The Cadet Nurse of today is in an enviable 
position. Nursing, as a profession, contains the 
most important features of a successful and 
satisfying career—a personal satisfaction that can 
be gained only by rendering service to others. 
Young women, equipped with nurse education, 
will do a superior job not only in the professional 
field, but as homemakers, wives, mothers and 
good citizens. In times of crisis, large or small, 
nurses are prepared to act calmly and efficiently. 
The study of nursing has been called a design 
for successful living, and rightfully so. 

Nurses, needed so desperately today, are going 
to be needed even more in tomorrow’s world. 
Every country will be acutely aware of the vast 
work to be done to establish standards of living 
surpassing all human experience. The Cadet 
Nurse will be able to meet the problems of tomor¬ 
row with the same self-confident assurance that 
she is meeting the emergencies of today. 

Lucile Petry, 

Director , Division of Nurse Education. 


July 19, 1944. 

In response to Nation-wide requests from nurs¬ 
ing and hospital leaders, Congress passed the 
Bolton Act establishing the U. S. Cadet Nurse 
Corps under the U. S. Public Health Service. 
The girl who is a Cadet Nurse today receives 
complete preparation under an accelerated pro¬ 
gram carefully designed to maintain high stand¬ 
ards of nursing education. As the graduate nurse 
of tomorrow, she will find broadened opportuni¬ 
ties in nursing service—in rehabilitation work, 
psychiatry, nutrition and the development of 
public health programs both at home and in for¬ 
eign countries. As proud members of a distin¬ 
guished profession, nurses make vital contribution 
to humanity in war and in peace. 

Stella Goostray, 

Principal , School of Nursing , Children’s 
Hospital and Chairman , National 
Nursing Council for War Service. 


July 20, 1944. 

Although the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps was 
established as a wartime measure, it will not stop 
abruptly at the war’s end. The Bolton Act, 
unanimously passed by Congress, at the urgent 
request of leaders in the hospital and nursing pro¬ 
fessions, includes a provision enabling all young 
women enrolled in the Corps 90 days before the 
end of hostilities to complete their nurse education 
under the program. In return for her education, 
each Cadet Nurse promises to remain in essential 
nursing—either military or civilian—for the 
duration of the war. Within the definition of 
the words “essential nursing”, she is free to choose 
where and how she will serve. 

Paul V. McNutt, 

Administrator , Federal Security Agency. 


July 19, 1944. 

As a profession, nursing has won universal 
admiration. No woman could choose a more 


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distinguished, glorious career. The nurse is the 
custodian of life from birth to death. The divi¬ 
dends she collects from her investment pay rich, 
soul-satisfying rewards in her years of humani¬ 
tarian work. 

The U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps program adminis¬ 
tered by the U. S. Public Health Service has been 
carefully designed to maintain traditional school- 
student relationships through grants-in-aid to 
approved Schools of Nursing. The Federal 
government has not established special schools 
for the education of Cadet Nurses, but has left 
each student free to choose her own Nursing 
School and her own field of work after graduation. 

Opportunities for peacetime nursing service 
should equal, if not exceed, those of the war. 
In serving today, these young Cadet Nurses are 
preparing for a future that will build a happier, 
healthier tomorrow for all mankind. 

Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer, 
President , American Medical Association. 


July 19, 1944. 

Never in the history of nursing have the ideals 
of nurse education been so high. Spurred by the 
exigencies of the situation, Schools of Nursing 
participating in the U. S. Public Health Service’s 
Cadet Nurse Corps program have accelerated 
their curricula in accordance with established 
criteria of nursing education. Today, the Cadet 
Nurse helps relieve the shortage of professional 
nurses. Tomorrow, as a graduate nurse, she will 
have a wide field of opportunities from which to 
choose. Whether she wishes to become a public 
health nurse, civilian hospital nurse, nurse edu¬ 
cator or administrator or a member of the Army 
or Navy Nurse Corps, she is well equipped 
by her preparation to succeed. 

Ruth Sleeper, 

President , National League of 

Nursing Education. 

July 19, 1944. 

The American Hospital Association has been 
vitally interested in'the growth of the U. S. Cadet 
Nurse Corps from its inception. Out of a series 


of conferences—called at the urgent request of 
those concerned with the increasing shortage of 
nurses—the Bolton Act was developed, estab¬ 
lishing the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps within the 
framework of the U. S. Public Health Service. 

Although curricula have been accelerated in 
every School of Nursing participating in the Corps 
program, the quality of the education given stu¬ 
dent nurses remains unchanged. America may 
be justly proud of the high educational standards 
maintained by its Nursing Schools. While the 
Federal government is responsible for the pro¬ 
gram, it is so established that the Nursing School 
is entirely responsible for the Cadet Nurse. We 
are constantly aware of the daily service these 
Cadet Nurses render in relieving nursing shortages 
in crowded hospitals as they learn a fine profes¬ 
sion. When disaster strikes in a community and 
emergency measures are necessary, they rise to 
the occasion like seasoned veterans. 

Frank J. Walter, 

President , American Hospital Association. 


July 21, 1944. 

We graduate nurses are proud of the many new 
phases in today’s nurse education plan—of the 
contribution made by members of the U. S. Cadet 
Nurse Corps to the Nation’s critical nursing 
shortage—of accelerated programs that so care¬ 
fully maintain standards—of Senior Cadets 
equipped to carry on practically full fledged 
nursing service. We agree with the policy of the 
generous grant-in-aid program established by the 
Federal government, as administered by the U. S. 
Public Health Service—to make no attempt to 
standardize Schools of Nursing but to maintain 
the usual school-student relationship, and to hold 
the Cadet Nurse responsible to the faculty of her 
Nursing School. After the war, we know that 
qualified graduate nurses will be able to select 
important peacetime careers from the many fields 
open to the nursing profession. The Cadet 
Nurse, by serving today, is earning her right to a 
richer, brighter tomorrow. 

Katharine J. Densford, 

President , American Nurses' Association 
and Director , School of Nursing , Uni¬ 
versity of Minnesota. 


U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE; 1944 


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